1073Crime Category: Other Mass Extermination Crimes, NS-Crimes in Detainment Centers,
Other NS-CrimesAccused:Petri, Erna geb. Kürbs Life sentencePetri, Horst Death sentenceCourt:LG/BG Erfurt 620915
Ob. Gericht der DDR 621012Country where the crime was committed: UkraineCrime Location: Grzenda estate near Lemberg, SaschkowCrime Date: 41-44Victims: Foreign Laborers, German Soldiers, Jews, CiviliansNationality: Soviet, German, PolishAgency: Private individualSubject of the proceeding: Management couple in charge of the SS-estate Grzenda.
Horst Petri: Mistreatment of numerous persons employed at the estate, in part causing
incurable damage to their health. Participation in chasing after and rounding up Jews who
had fled from deportation transports and shooting of Jews who were caught in the process.
Participation in the shooting of the Jewish population of a town adjacent to the estate.
Deportation of Jewish forced laborers to concentration camps. Participation in the
shooting of 15 Ukrainian farmers, who were reported to have delivered food supplies to the
partisans. Shooting at a German soldier. Erna Petri: Participation in chasing after
escaped Jews. Shooting of Jewish men and children who had been caught or who were
discovered wandering. Mistreatment of girls employed at the estate. Delivery of female
Ukrainian workers into a concentration camp

Published in DDR-Justiz und NS-Verbrechen vol. III

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